Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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black edges

The edges of a book that have been blackened by sponging them with ink, followed by ivory black, lampblack, or antimony mixed with paste. Although used extensively in the 19th century on devotional and funereal publications, they are uncommon today. (152 , 241 )




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